[CentOS] In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> said:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:18:09 +0000 (UTC)
> Tony Mountifield wrote:
> >  killing the UEFI stuff stops you ever being able to do a re-install on that box. Is that correct?
> 
> Apparently so.

Just to clarify: this appears to be a problem with some particular buggy
UEFI implementations; this is not a universal problem with the UEFI
design or anything.  It is unclear (just "some MSI boards") which
models/revisions/etc. have this particular problem.  There have been
other isolated UEFI implementation problems before (some Samsung laptops
for example, with a particular UEFI version and Linux kernel driver
version plus a samsung-laptop driver enabled).

This isn't meant to diminish the impact; certainly UEFI is proving to be
problematic in ways the BIOS wasn't (although the early days of "IBM
compatible BIOS" implementations also had weird issues from time to
time).

-- 
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>